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Series
Film Movement volume year 8, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93, 10 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Romanian
Description
Silviu has only two weeks left before his release from a hostile juvenile detention center. But when his mother, who abandoned him long ago, returns to take his younger brother away--a brother Silviu raised like a son--those two weeks become an eternity. While his outcries for help fall on deaf ears, he is introduced to a beautiful social worker that he can only dream of being close to. Faced with a slew of conflicting emotions and wild with desperation,...
82) Rebel Seoul
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2199 in the Neo State of Korea, eighteen-year-old Jaewon is partnered with supersoldier Tera, but their evolving love is threatened when Jaewon must choose among conflicting loyalties--to the totalitarian government that promises to end all war, the nationalist rebels his father followed, or the crime syndicate staging a coup.
Author
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated. Born from an affair and an unplanned pregnancy, Morial was raised largely by her father and his family, and grew up with no knowledge of her mother. Here she tells the candid and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment-- and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades. Now an award-winning journalist and co-host of...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Travis leads the uncomplicated life of a millionaire Texas playboy. He makes no commitments, he loves many women, he lives for pleasure. Until one day, a woman appears on his doorstep with fury on her face and a baby in her arms. It seems Jack is the father and this woman is the baby's aunt.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
Formats
Description
A married woman, pregnant with her sea-captain lover's child, dies giving birth. The child, Serafina Finn, is abandoned to an orphanage and grows up longing to feel that she belongs somewhere. Eighteen years later, her father, hearing rumours that his lost daughter survived, dispatches a detective, Adam Chapman, to discover the truth. Adam finds, and falls in love with, Serafina--but, even if he can prove her identity, will her real family accept...
87) Wildflower ridge
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
In "Natural Born Lawman," deputy Justin Adams meets single mother Patsy Longhorn when she tries to steal some medicine for her sick son; and in "The Unclaimed Baby," Sharon Adams and Cord Branson dream of a family while caring for an abandoned baby.
88) Lore
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings, led by fourteen year old Lore, embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once-great estate in Surrey with the family's housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead and his mother has been abroad for months, purportedly tending to her late husband's faltering business. She left in a hurry one night while Samuel was sleeping and did not say goodbye. Beyond her sporadic postcards, Samuel hears nothing from his mother. He misses her dearly and maps her journey in an atlas he finds in her study....
90) Entangling
Author
Series
Publisher
Kelley Griffin
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Kirin Lane's father dies, it means nothing to her. Why should it? It's been thirty years since he abandoned her after her mother's death. But when her house is ransacked and sinister men pursue her, Kirin is forced to look to the only thing he left her for answers--a tattered Marine Corps field manual. Inside, she discovers clues that could unlock the mystery surrounding her mother's murder, if only she can follow the cryptic information. She...
92) Love, Aubrey
Author
Language
English
Description
While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
93) Not her daughter
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 344 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Emma Townsend lives with her cruel mother and clueless father, retreating into her own world of quiet and solitude. When a chance encounter with Emma presents itself, Sarah Walker takes her. Has Emma been stolen, or rescued? Amy Townsend is unsure whether she wants her daughter back. She had physically and mentally tortured her own daughter -- but did that make her a bad mother? -- adapted from back cover.
94) A tender hope
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As far as Thea Michener is concerned, it's time for a change. With her husband murdered and her much-anticipated baby stillborn, there is nothing left for her in Ladreville. Having accepted a position as Cimarron Creek's midwife, she has no intention of remarrying and trying for another child. So when a handsome Texas Ranger appears on her doorstep with an abandoned baby, Thea isn't sure her heart can take it. Ranger Jackson Guthrie isn't concerned...
95) Coo
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 407 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Coo, a ten-year-old girl raised by a flock of pigeons, delights in finally making human contact, but quickly learns that our world is more cruel and complicated than she could have guessed"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty years is a long time to be without a father, and, for Navy pilot Annie Peregrine-Goode, the sky has become a home the earth has never been. So when her father calls out of the blue to ask for a dying wishone both absurd and mysterious, no is the easiest of answers. Until she hears that the reward is the one thing she always wanted.
97) Mudwoman
Author
Language
English
Description
M.R. Neukirchen--the first female president of a lauded Ivy League institution--struggles to hold onto her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
At least 5,000 children live on the streets of Uganda's capital city of Kampala. Some forget the names of their villages. The youngest may not know the names of their parents. But Gladys Kalibbala--part journalist, part detective, part good Samaritan--does not hesitate to dive into difficult or even dangerous situations to aid a child. Author of a newspaper column called 'Lost and Abandoned, ' she is a resource that police and others turn to when...
Author
Series
Intervention novels volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds the abandoned baby of a drug addict, he is accused of kidnapping, and his mother Barbara looks for help from her old lover, Kent Harlan.
100) Fallen angels
Author
Series
Millwood Hollow series volume 1
Publisher
Warner Faith
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
viii, 301 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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